Wooohoooo! *boogies*

[Edana ni Emer]

I found out what was causing my stuck grade-bar issue!  It was the damn no-cd patch for OFB!  As soon as I got rid of that, everything went back to normal!

Now I just have to find a no-cd patch for OFB that *works*.

[jrd]

Mount a mini-image with D-tools 4 and use a Safedisc hider. WFM, YMMV.

Or just use D-tools 3 and a mini-image.

[Edana ni Emer]

Is a mini-image different from an .mdf file?  Cause I had DTools 3-something and the .mds and .mdf file, *and* the hider, and it still wouldn't work.

[Ms_Tamany]

What I do is use Game Jackal  (you can google for it).  It's not free, but it's cheap, and what it basically does is record the anti-copy info off the CD and puts it into a profile.  That's all the computer needs your CD for, with OFB, anyway, is to read the 'yup, he bought it' info.  Game Jackal basically gives the computer permission to run the game.  You have to run OFB with the disk in once, so it can build the profile, and you have to run it any consecutive time through the Game Jackal shortcut you can create, but it's been working just fine with no CD for me.  WHEEE!

[gethane]

thank you thank you thank you thank you

i bet that's my trouble too. I couldn't figure it out for the life of me.

[cabelle]

Strange, I'm not using one.  Maybe my game's just possessed.

[gethane]

yes! this tip did get my uni grade bar unstuck!

thanks! I have 4 sims that I need to run through uni before I can get back to my neighborhood.